Papers, Essays and Articles

Osvaldo Hurtado has written numerous essays and monographs on the economic, social and political situation in Latin America and Ecuador, he presented in conferences or developed research studies requested by international organizations and academic centers. These papers have been published in Ecuador and international collective books and specialized magazines in: Germany, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Spain, United States of America, France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru and Switzerland.

In these writings some ideas remain unchanged:

Economic stability and growth are essential for a long-term social policy can be sustained which raises living standards and reduces poverty. The market economy, international trading and high private investment, especially foreign promote the achievement of the objectives. Education and health policies are decisive to offer equal opportunities to all individuals. There is only one democracy, the one imagined and instituted by the western countries, under whose institutions their peoples reached high well-being levels not achieved by any other political regime. Democracy is the government system best suits citizens because it protects freedom, guarantees their public participation and divides power to prevent abuse. A pluralist and representative parties system is essential for the effective operation of democratic institutions and countries governance.

Ecuadorian democracy and others in Latin America are affected by governance issues that have conspired against the proper operation of their institutions. This weakness can be corrected through political reforms, but they do not always produce the expected results if the actors of public life - citizens, parties, social organizations, economic groups, the media - do not have strong democratic convictions.

Among the published essays, the following stand out: Economía Política en la Democracia Ecuatoriana (2011), Los últimos 33 años (2010), El camino económico de la lengua española (2010), Know Thyself: Latín America in the Mirror of Culture (2010), Neoliberalismo y economía social de mercado (2005), Democracia y gobernabilidad en los países andinos (2005), Elementos para una reforma política en América Latina (2005), Problemas estructurales de la democracia ecuatoriana (2005), Gobernabilidad, democracia y pobreza (1997), El pensamiento social de la Iglesia Católica (1991), Latin America in the New International Context (1991), La transición democrática 1977-1979 (1981).

Lists of Papers, Essays and Articles:

Estado y Mercado en América Latina

Paper presented at the conference “Europe and South-America: the International Dimension of Social Market Economy”. Pavia, Italy 20-21 Abril 2015.

El libro y la tecnología

Paper presented at the “VI Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española”, Panamá 2013. (Inédita)

De la Democracia a la Dictadura

Published in the magazine “América Latina: dos modelos, una sola región”, UDLA, Quito, 2011.

Economía Política en la Democracia Ecuatoriana

Published by Cordes, Quito, 2011.

Know Thyself: Latin America in the Mirror of Culture

Published in the magazine “The American Interest”, Vol. V, N°3, Washington D.C., January/February 2010.

Los últimos 33 años

Published in the book “El Poder Político en el Ecuador”, 18va. Edición, Planeta, Quito, 2010.

Solución del problema territorial

Published in the book “10 años de paz: Ecuador – Perú”, Cordes, Quito, 2009. (Presentación del libro Así se hizo la paz).

El camino económico de la lengua española

Paper presented at the “V Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española”, Valparaíso, marzo 2008; y en la revista “Caminos del Español”, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, 2008.

Neoliberalismo y economía social de mercado

Published by Cordes, Quito, 2005; y en la revista “Dialogo Político”, N°1, Buenos Aires, 2005.

Democracia y gobernabilidad en los países andinos

Published in the magazine “Foreign Affairs en Español”, Vol. 5, N°4, México D. F., 2005.

Problemas de Gobernabilidad de la Democracia Ecuatoriana

Published in the magazine “Diplomacia, Estratégica, Política (DEP)”, Año I, N°3, Brasilia, 2005; y en la revista “La Ilustración Liberal”, N°26, Madrid, Diciembre 2005.

Problemas estructurales de la democracia ecuatoriana

Published by Cordes, Quito, 2005.

Elementos para una reforma política en América Latina

Published by Inter American Development Bank, Washington D.C., 2005.

Cultura y democracia, una relación olvidada

Published in the magazine “La democracia en América Latina: Hacia una democracia de ciudadanas y ciudadanos”, PNUD – Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara, Buenos Aires, 2004.

Cultura y desarrollo

Published in the book “Sociología del Desarrollo, Políticas Sociales y Democracia”, CEPAL- Siglo Veintiuno Editores, México, D.F.,2001.

Nuestros deberes y responsabilidades para ser buenos ecuatorianos

Published by Cordes – KAS, Quito, 1999.

Los grandes objetivos de la Asamblea Constituyente

Speech delivered at the inauguration of national assembly of Ecuador in 1997.

El Futuro de la Democracia en América Latina

Published by Feso, Quito, 1997.

Entwicklungs perspektiven

Published in the book “Zeitschrift fur Lateinamerika”, N°12, Vienna, 1997.

Ecuador: riqueza en la mitad del mundo

Published in the book “La Apuesta del Nuevo Mundo”, Interlorum, Lima, 1997.

Gobernabilidad, democracia y pobreza

Published in the magazine “Estrategias para reducir la pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe”, PNUD, Quito, 1997.

Estado, Democracia y Gobierno

Published in the book “Reforma y Modernización del Estado”, Naciones Unidas – ILPES, Santiago, 1997.

Realidades y desafíos de América Latina

Published in the magazine “Iberoamericana”, Vol. XVII, N°2, Tokio: Instituto Iberoamericano. Universidad Sofía, Segundo Semestre, 1995.

Universidad y Desarrollo

Published in the book “Universidad, Estado y Sociedad”, Corporación Editora Nacional – Ildis, Quito, 1994.

Julio Tobar Donoso: Victima expiatoria

Published by Feso, Quito, 1994.

Latin America: Decline and Responsability

Published in the book “Latin America in a New World”, Inter American Dialogue- Westview Press, Boulder, 1994.

Cultura Política

Published in the book “Léxico Político Ecuatoriano”, ILDIS, Quito, 1994.

La OIT en el tercer milenio

Published in the book “Pensamientos sobre el porvenir de la justicia social”, OIT, Ginebra, 1994.

Crisis y reforma de la universidad ecuatoriana

Published by Feso, Quito, 1992.

América Latina en el siglo XXI: Problemas, desafíos y posibilidades

Published by Cordes, Quito, 1991.

¿Encuentro de dos culturas o resistencia indígena?

Published by Feso, Quito, 1991.

El Pensamiento Social de la Iglesia Católica en los Últimos Cien Años

Published in the book “A Cien Años de Rerum Novarum”, CEPAL, Santiago, 1991.

Latin America in the New International Context

Published in the book “Beyond Superpower Rivalry: Latin America and the Third World”, Geonomics Institute for International Economic Advancement, New York University Press, New York, 1991.

La idee di Aldo Moro e la transformazione del mondo

Published in the book “Aldo Moro, Estato e Societá”, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Roma, 1990.

Ecuador lost illutions

Published in the book “Lost Illusions: Latin America´s Struggle for Democracy, as Recounted by its Leaders”, Institute of the Americas, Markus Wiener Publishing, New York, 1990.